Cinematographer. He will be best remembered for his association with pioneering film director D.W. Griffith (1874-1948), as his first cameraman. He was born one of four children as Arthur Weed Marvin to Daniel Warner Marvin (1824-1913), and his wife Ellen Jane Weed Marvin (1830-1902), in Jordan, New York, another source says in Warners, New York, on May 26, 1859. He became part of the famous Biograph Studios of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in The Bronx, New York, beginning in 1897. His brother Harry Marvin (1862-1940), was one of the four founders of the studio including Herman Casler (1867-1939), William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860-1935), and Elias Bernard Koopman (1860-1929). He then went to Cuba with the cinematographer Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (1872-1944), and began filming events that happened during the Spanish-American War in 1898. He also directed the short film, "Sherlock Holmes Baffled" (1900), which was the earliest known film to feature Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes. He then continued to work with pioneering film director D.W. Griffith (1874-1948), on several more projects over the years including his directorial debut on the film, "The Adventures Of Dollie" (1908), and "Pippa Passes" (1909), which was praised by film historians. Besides, "Sherlock Holmes Baffled" (1900), "The Adventures Of Dollie" (1908), and "Pippa Passe" (1909), his many other film credits include, "A Bowery Cafe" (1897), "The Christian Herald's Relief Station, Havana" (1898), "Farmer Oatcake Has His Troubles" (1899), "Symphony In 'A' Flat (1899), "Distributing A War Extra" (1899), "A Unique Race" (1899), "43rd Rifles: Royal Canadian Infantry" (1899), "'Imperial Limited.' Canadian Pacific R.R." (1899), "The Imperial Limited" (1899), "In Fighting Trim" (1899), "Lord And Lady Minto" (1899), "Heroes Of Luzon" (1899), "Jeffries Being Rubbed Down" (1899), "Jeffries Boxing With Tommy Ryan" (1899), "Jeffries Running With His Trainers" (1899), "Jeffries Training On Bicycle" (1899), "Jeffries And Brother Boxing" (1899), "Jeffries And Roeber Wrestling" (1899), "Jeffries And A Child At Play" (1899), "Port Huron; West End Of St. Clair Tunnel" (1899), "St. Clair Tunnel" (1899), "West Side St. Clair Tunnel" (1899), "Jeffries And Roeber Wrestling (No.2) (1899), "Mounted Rifles At Drill" (1900), "Northwestern Mounted Rifles" (1900), "Royal Leinster Regiment" (1900), "Royal Leinster Regiment On Parade" (1900), "Royal Leinsters On Review" (1900), "Toronto Mounted Rifles" (1900), "How They Rob Men In Chicago" (1900), "After Dark In Central Park" (1900), "The Chimney Sweep And The Miller" (1900), "The Croton Dam Strike" (1900), "Tommy's Trick On Grandpa" (1900), "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade" (1900), "The Troublesome Fly" (1900), "The Cheeky Book Agent" (1900), "The Girl Who Went Astray" (1900), "She Ran With The City Man" (1900), "In Suicide Hall" (1900), "The New Soubrette" (1900), "The Art Of Making Up" (1900), "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade" (1900), "A Good Time With The Organ Grinder" (1900), "The Growler Gang Catches A Tartar" (1900), How They Fired The Bum" (1900), "How The Farmer Was Buncoed" (1900), "How The Old Maid Got A Husband" (1900, "An Impromptu Hairdresser" (1900), "Insured Against Loss" (1900), "May Day Parade" (1900), "Maypole Dance" (1900), "One On The Bum" (1900), "The Rubberneck Boarders" (1900), "Sidewalks Of New York" (1900), "The Thief And The Pie Woman" (1900), "Uncle Reuben Lands A Kick" (1900), "Why Mrs. McCarthy Went To The Ball" (1900), "Alligator Bait" (1900), "The Arizona Doctor" (1900), "A Career Of Crime, No. 1: Start In Life" (1900), "A Career Of Crime, No. 2: Going The Pace" (1900), "A Career Of Crime, No. 3: Robbery & Murder" (1900), "A Career Of Crime, No. 4: In The Toils" (1900), "A Career Of Crime, No. 5: The Death Chair" (1900), "The Census On Cherry Hill" (1900), "The Clown And The See-Saw Fairies" (1900), "A Cold Water Cure" (1900), "Escaped From Sing Sing" (1900), "The Exposed Seance" (1900), "A Gesture Fight In Hester Street" (1900), "How Bridget Made The Fire" (1900), "How He Saw The Eclipse" (1900), "Love At 55" (1900), "The Man In The Jimjams" (1900), "The Masher's Waterloo" (1900), "Not The Man He Waited For" (1900), "Seeing Things At Night" (1900), "Such A Quiet Girl, Too!" (1900), "The Tell-Tale Kiss" (1900), "The Tramp And The Burglar" (1900), "Tramp In The Haunted House" (1900), "A Tramp In The Well" (1900), "Wifie Invades The Studio" (1900), "A Yard Of Frankfurters" (1900), "Trouble In Hogan's Alley" (1900), "The Champion Beer Drinker" (1900), "Allabad, The Arabian Wizard" (1900), "Arrest Of A Shoplifter" (1900), "The Burglar-Proof Bed" (1900), "A Convict's Punishment" (1900), "Execution Of A Spy" (1900), "A Hair-Raising Episode" (1900), "His Dad Caught Him Smoking" (1900), "His Name Was Mud" (1900), "Hoboken Fire" (1900), "The Hoboken Holocaust" (1900), "How Charlie Lost The Heiress" (1900), "A Jersey Skeeter" (1900), "The Katzenjammer Kids Have A Love Affair" (1900), "Love In The Dark" (1900), "The Mail-Man In Coon Town" (1900), "The Organ Grinder's Fourth Of July" (1900), "A Political Discussion" (1900), "A Raid On A Woman's Poolroom" (1900), "A Strike In A Dime Museum" (1900), "Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out" (1900), "Too Much Of A Good Thing" (1900), "The Tramp Gets Whitewashed" (1900), "Trouble At The Christening" (1900), "A Wake In 'Hell's Kitchen" (1900), "Who Said Chicken?" (1900), "Eccentricities Of An Adirondack Canoe" (1900), "A Gone Goose" (1900), "A Launch Party In The Adirondacks" (1900), "Living Pictures" (1900), "M'lle Alma" (1900), "The Narrows" (1900), "Rescue From A Harem" (1900), "Rescue Of A White Girl From The Boxers" (1900), "The Shah's Return From Paris" (1900), "The Slave Market" (1900), "Steamer 'Stowell' Running The Narrows" (1900), "Temptation Of St. Anthony" (1900), "The Unfaithful Odalisque" (1900), "The Barber's Queer Customer" (1900), "Accidents Will Happen" (1900), "The Chinese Rubbernecks" (1900), "A Dog Fight" (1900), "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1900), "Family Troubles" (1900), "Ghosts In A Chinese Laundry" (1900), "Homer Davenport, The Cartoonist" (1900), "Hon. B.B. Odell, Jr." (1900), "How The Artist Captured The Chinese Boxers" (1900), "How The Magician Got The Best Of The Installment Man" (1900), "Indiana Whitecaps" (1900), "The Magic Picture" (1900), "Shoo Fly" (1900), "Spooks At School" (1900), "Tortured By Boxers" (1900), "The Tribulations Of An Amateur Photographer" (1900), "What The Bathing Girls Did To The Kodak Fiend" (1900), "Why Curfew Did Not Ring Last Night" (1900), "Boarding School Girls' Pajama Parade" (1900), "A Flirtation" (1900), "Fun In A Photograph Gallery" (1900), "A Good Time Behind The Scenes" (1900), "A Hot Time In The Dressing Room" (1900), "How The Dude Got The Soubrette's Baggage" (1900), "Jealousy In The Dressing Room" (1900), "A Joke On The Old Maid" (1900), "The Kleptomaniacs" (1900), "Knock-Out Drops On The Bowery" (1900), "Scandal In The Custom House" (1900), "Soubrettes In A Bachelor's Flat" (1900), "They Led Her Husband Astray" (1900), "Through The Key-Hole In The Door" (1900), "A Visit To Baby Roger" (1900), "Westminister Street" (1900), "What They Do To Respectable Men In The Tenderloin" (1900), "What The Jay Saw In The Studio" (1900), "Where The Female Smuggler Hid The Lace" (1900), "Return Of The Canadian Contingent" (1900), "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade" (1900), "A Career of Crime" (1900), "Canadian Mounted Rifles On The March" (1900), "Phrosine And Meledore" (1900), "The Black Storm" (1900), "Department Of The Second Contingent" (1900), "How They Got Rid Of Mamma" (1900), "Into The Wilderness!" (1900), "Bargain Day" (1900), "Homer Davenport, The Cartoonist" (1900), "Return Of The Canadian Contingent" (1900), "Medical Gymnastics" (1901), "Codfishing With Trawl" (1901), "Drawing A Lobster Pot" (1901), "Fertilizing Codfish Eggs" (1901), "Band And Battalion Of The U.S. Indian School" (1901), "Artillery Drill At Annapolis" (1901), "Basket Ball" (1901), "Calisthenic Drill" (1901), "Club, Swinging, Carlisle Indian School" (1901), "Deaf Mute Recitation" (1901), "Dressmaking" (1901), "Energizing Drill" (1901), "Forging" (1901), "Girls Dumbbell Drill" (1901), "The High Jump" (1901), "The High School Cadets" (1901), "Kindergarten Methods" (1901), "Laboratory Study" (1901), "A Language Lesson" (1901), "Manual Training" (1901), "A Muffin Lesson" (1901), "Nature Study, The Rabbit" (1901), "Physical Training" (1901), "Pole Vaulting" (1901), "U.S. Naval Cadets Marching In Review" (1901), "Heavy Gymnastics" (1901), "Fulton Market" (1901), "Hauling A Shad Net" (1901), "In The Gypsy Camp" (1901), "A Large Haul Of Fish" (1901), "Laughing Ben" (1901), "A Mystic Re-Incarnation" (1901), "On The Old Plantation" (1901), "Unloading A Mackerel Schooner" (1901), "Bally-Hoo Cake Walk" (1901), "Beautiful Orient" (1901), "The Bridge Of Sighs--Pan American Exposition" (1901), "Esquimaux Dance" (1901), "A Esquimaux Games" (1901), "The Esquimaux Village" (1901), "Fair Japan--Pan American Position" (1901), "Fountain, Tower, And Basins--Pan American Exposition" (1901), "The Indoan Congress" (1901), "Main Entrance To The Pan-American Exp." (1901), "On The Midway: Pan-American Exposition" (1901), "The Ostrich Farm: On The Midway" (1901), "Panorama Of Midway--Pan American Exposition" (1901), "Panoramic View Gov't Building, Pan. Am. Exp." (1901), "Propylaea And North Of The Plaza. Pan. Am. Exp." (1901), "Scene In Beautiful Orient--Pan American Exposition" (1901), "Survillenas Dance--Pan American Exposition" (1901), "Venice In America" (1901), "Women Of The Ghetto Bathing" (1901), "Boys Entering Free Bath" (1901), "Boys Free Public Baths" (1901), "Ladies Day At The Public Baths" (1901), "Saturday At The Free Baths" (1901), "Broadway And Fourteenth St. Experimental" (1901), "The Campus Martius" (1901), "Centennial Parade" (1901), "Detroit Mail Carriers" (1901), "A Flower Parade" (1901), "Industrial Floats" (1901), "Landing Of Cadillac" (1901), "Steamship 'Deutschland' (1901), "Unveling Chair Of Justice" (1901), "Arrival At Falls View Station" (1901), "Capt. Schuyler Post Of Philadelphia" (1901), "Chapin Post Of Buffalo" (1901), "Cuyahoga Gorge" (1901), "The Empire Theatre" (1901), "Farragut Naval Post, Ohio State" (1901), "Funeral Of President McKinley" (1901), "Headquarters, Staff And Band, Ohio State" (1901), "Lambs Club, G.A.R." (1901), "The Living Flag" (1901), "Lyttle Post Of Cincinnati" (1901), "Convention Of Railroad Passengers Agents" (1901), "panoramic View, Asheville, N.C." (1901), "Coaching For A Record" (1901), "Bass Fishing" (1901), "Unloading Cod" (1901), |"Drawing A Lobster Pot" (1901), "Unloading Halibut" (1901), "Esquimaux Of Labrador" (1901), "Experimental. Southwestern Limited Train" (1902), "Installation Ceremonies Of President Butler" (1902), "48th Highlanders Regiment" (1902), "Century Wheelman, N.Y. City" (1902), "Installation Ceremonies, Columbia University" (1902), "Pontoon Bridge Building" (1902), "A Private Supper At Heller's" (1902), "Street Scene" (1902), "Lower New York" (1902), "Over The Rail" (1902), "They Found The Leak" (1902), "From The Crow's Nest" (1902), "Railroad Vie--Experimental" (1903), "Exhibition Fire Drill, Uinon Square, N.Y." (1904), "Mr. Gay And Mrs." (1907), "Professional Jelaousy" (1908), "Classmates" (1908), "The Man In The Box" (1908), "At The Crossroads Of Life" (1908), "The Kentuckian" (1908), "The Stage Rustler" (1908), "The Fight For Freedom" (1908), "The Black Viper" (1908), "The Tavern Keeper's Daughter" (1908), "The Red Man And The Child" (1908), "Deceived Slumming Party" (1908), "The Bandit's Waterloo" (1908), "A Calamitous Elopement" (1908), "The Greaser's Gauntlet" (1908), "The Man And The Woman" (1908), "The Fatal Hour" (1908), "For Love Of Gold" (1908), "Balked At The Altar" (1908), "For A Wife's Honor" (1908), "Betrayed By A Handprint" (1908), "The Girl And The Outlaw" (1908), "The Red Girl" (1908), "The Heart Of O Yama" (1908), "Where The Breakers Roar" (1908), "The Call Of The Wild" (1908), "After Many Years" (1908), "The Pirate's Gold" (1908), "The Taming Of The Shrew" (1908), "The Guerrilla" (1908), "The Ingrate" (1908), "A Woman's Way" (1908), "The Valet's Wife" (1908), "The Feud And The Turkey" (1908), "An Awful Moment" (1908), "The Helping Hand" (1908), "Three Weeks" (1908), "Farmer Greene's Summer Boarders" (1908), "The Merry Widow At A Supper Party" (1908), "Colored Maid Getting Rid Of A Suitor" (1908), "That Awful Stork" (1908), "Fluffy's New Corsets" (1908), "Fun In The Hay" (1908), "Nellie's Camera" (1908), "Too Many In Bed" (1908), "The Fisherman's Model" (1908), "The Girl's Boxing Match" (1909), "One Touch Of Nature" (1909), "Love Finds A Way" (1909), "Those Boys!" (1909), "The Cord Of Life" (1909), "The Girls And Daddy" (1909), "Tragic Love" (1909), "The Golden Louis" (1909), "The Politician's Love Story" (1909), "At The Altar" (1909), "His Wife's Mother" (1909), "The Wooden Leg" (1909), "The Salvation Army Lass" (1909), "The Lure Of The Gown" (1909), "The Voice Of The Violin" (1909), "A Burglar's Mistake" (1909), "The Road To The Heart" (1909), "Trying To Get Arrested" (1909), "Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade" (1909), "A Sound Sleeper" (1909), "Confidence" (1909), "A Troublesome Satchel" (1909), "The Drive For A Life" (1909), "Lucky Jim" (1909), "Twin Brothers" (1909), "Tis An Ill Wind That Blows No Good" (1909), "The Eavesdropper" (1909), "The Suicide Club" (1909), "One Busy Hour" (1909), "The French Duel" (1909), "A Baby's Shoe" (1909), "The Jilt" (1909), "Resurrection" (1909), "Eloping With Auntie" (1909), "The Cricket On The Hearth" (1909), "Eradicating Aunty" (1909), "His Duty" (1909), "The Lonely Villa" (1909), "The Son's Return" (1909), "The Faded Lilies" (1909), "Was Justice Served?" (1909), "The Peachbasket Hat" (1909), "The Way Of Man" (1909), "The Necklace" (1909), "The Message" (1909), "The Friend Of The Family" (1909), "The Renunciation" (1909), "Mr. Jones' Burgler" (1909), "Pranks" (1909), "The Hessian Renegades" (1909), "Leather Stocking" (1909), "The Little Teacher" (1909), "A Midnight Adventure" (1909), "The Test" (1909), "To Save Her Soul" (1909), "The Heart Of An Outlaw" (1909), "The Rocky Road" (1910), "All Account Of The Milk" (1910), "To Honor Of His Family" (1910), "The Cloister's Touch" (1910), "The Final Settlement" (1910), "The Newlyweds" (1910), "The Love Of Lady Irma" (1910), "Faithful" (1910), "The Smoker" (1910), "The Two Brothers" (1910), "The Kid" (1910), "Up A Tree" (1910), "The Gold Seekers" (1910), "Love Among The Roses" (1910), "An Affair Of Hearts" (1910), "The Impalement" (1910), "In The Season Of Buds" (1910), "A Child Of The Ghetto" (1910), "May And December" (1910), "Never Again" (1910), "A Child's Impulse" (1910), "Serious Sixteen" (1910), "An Old Story With A New Ending" (1910), "When We Were In Our Teens" (1910), "A Summer Tragedy" (1910), "A Gold Necklace" (1910), "How Hubby Got A Raise" (1910), "A Lucky Toothache" (1910), "The Masher" (1910), "The Passing Of A Grouch" (1910), "The Troublesome Baby" (1910), "Love In A Quarantine" (1910), "His New Lid" (1910), "Not So Bad As It Seemed" (1910), "Effecting A Cure" (1910), "Happy Jack A Hero" (1910), "Turning The Tables" (1910), "The Recreation Of An Heiress" (1910), "After The Ball" (1910), "His WIfe's Sweethearts" (1910), "The Midnight Marauder" (1911), "Help Wanted" (1910), "The Poor Sick Man" (1911), and "Priscilla's Engagement Ring" (1911). He continued to work in films as a cinematographer until his unexpected death. He passed away from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, on January 18, 1911, at the age of 51. Following his death, he was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New York. He was married to Caroline Schnatterer Marvin from 1890 until his death on January 18, 1911, at the age of 51. The couple had no children together. Another source says he was married to Sarah E. Babcock Marvin. On an interesting note, his nephew Daniel Warner Marvin II (1894-1912), his brother Henry's son, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.